Month: April 2026

Amazon’s Smart Thermostat can help lower your energy bills, and it’s down to $62

With temperatures on the rise and Earth Day right around the corner, now’s a good time to invest in a smart thermostat if you haven’t already. A good one like Amazon’s Smart Thermostat can help reduce energy use and lower your bills without sacrificing comfort, and right now it’s just…

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Top open source AI platform Flowise hit by maximum-level security issue

Flowise AI platform carried CVSS-10 arbitrary code flaw Vulnerability in CustomMCP node exploited in the wild Up to 15,000 exposed instances urged to update immediately Flowise, a popular open source platform for building custom LLM apps and AI agents, carried a maximum-severity vulnerability which allowed threat actors to run arbitrary…

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The Miniature Wife was an exercise in visual trickery

In Manuel Gonzales’ 2013 short story “The Miniature Wife,” a woman starts to become a different kind of person after her husband accidentally shrinks her down to the size of a coffee mug. Because of her new stature, the woman is more physically vulnerable, and it’s difficult for her to…

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Snowflake customers suffer data theft attacks after third-party issue, company confirms ‘unusual activity’

ShinyHunters breached Anodot, stealing Snowflake tokens Attack hit more than a dozen Snowflake customers Group claims data theft and extortion, echoing 2024 campaign A supply chain attack at an analytics company has resulted in more than a dozen Snowflake customers losing their sensitive information. The ShinyHunters extortion group recently broke…

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Ikea’s New Lineup of Smart Home Gear Is Quietly Changing the Game

Ikea’s latest light bulbs, remotes, and more have arrived, plus plenty of other fun gear that’s well-priced and easy to control. Source

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says ‘AI shift’ makes this a great time to invest in new start-ups

Google wants to “deploy capital in a good way” among early AI startups Hidden gem projects cover areas like data centers in space and quantum computing The company invests in third parties when internal opportunities aren’t mature enough The CEO of Alphabet (parent company to Google) has declared now may…

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